Tuesday, December 23, 2014
THE EASY WAY OUT
THE EASY WAY OUT
This fine morning
Coyote feeling worse
than useless. Happens.
So, she says, write
a poem. Oh, right, write
a poem, okay, take
the easy way out.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
FROM KATE
Hi to all of you,
I had a real flashback yesterday evening after a beautiful weekend with my three grandsons in Franklin Massachusetts (home of the first American free Library) They have created a very suburban village in an old Italian Village full of old Roman Catholic Iconic sculpture. They have created a new sculpture park and the young families have a place to walk in nature and see public sculpture.
I turned on the IPAD to check my email and there was a beautiful shot of Havana with a skycape against the Sea Wall on a day of blue sky with billowing clouds. It brought a flood of images to mind that really delighted me. One of standing in a beautiful tropical breeze on the top of the hotel near ours where Cuban music played each night. I am standing by Kent Twitchell looking over the edge at the beautiful detail in the architecture of the building next door. The gorgeous European detail, gargoyles and long carved West Indies French doors flung open to reveal a small glimpse of the interior. It was breathtaking and it made me for a short moment aware of the incredible work of so many people to create these buildings. It was a moment of remembering how incredible each human life is, invested in enormous intelligence and spirit and creativity. Seems to me our egos rob us of awareness of the miracles all around us in the world.
As I drove toward home--a 90 mile trip we make quite often to return to our post and beam cedar cottage--a beautiful tropical storm was brewing out near Nantucket. Steve and I had taken different cars in order to get all our errands done while up in the more modern shopping of off Cape communities. The sky was so spectacular and it lit the whole horizon creating such a show you couldn't imagine what you were seeing.
It made me remember our day at the beautiful Fine Arts Museum in Havana, the way the thunder and lightening had echoed through out the amazing open stairway of the museum. It was as though nature was creating a symphony to match the works collected in the museum.
I wanted to write to myself in my journal that night , to never forget the powerful moments that can't be really described even in images. The feel of the oppressive humidity on our skin, the heat and the build up to the first lightening strike. I notice in myself and so many artists around me the striving and the burning creativity that sometimes keep me from being present for the real miracles around me.
I will remember this weekend, such a great time with my friends and family just enjoying each other and being aware that it is always a miracle, each day, each friend, each child running in the grass.
Art gives us a second look at those moments when we take the time to really look. I am sure the wonderful people of Cuba (that we met and experienced_ often see a show of fantastic lightening and thunder out beyond that sea wall. Perhaps those gifts of nature in someway make the other suffering tolerable at times?
I had a real flashback yesterday evening after a beautiful weekend with my three grandsons in Franklin Massachusetts (home of the first American free Library) They have created a very suburban village in an old Italian Village full of old Roman Catholic Iconic sculpture. They have created a new sculpture park and the young families have a place to walk in nature and see public sculpture.
I turned on the IPAD to check my email and there was a beautiful shot of Havana with a skycape against the Sea Wall on a day of blue sky with billowing clouds. It brought a flood of images to mind that really delighted me. One of standing in a beautiful tropical breeze on the top of the hotel near ours where Cuban music played each night. I am standing by Kent Twitchell looking over the edge at the beautiful detail in the architecture of the building next door. The gorgeous European detail, gargoyles and long carved West Indies French doors flung open to reveal a small glimpse of the interior. It was breathtaking and it made me for a short moment aware of the incredible work of so many people to create these buildings. It was a moment of remembering how incredible each human life is, invested in enormous intelligence and spirit and creativity. Seems to me our egos rob us of awareness of the miracles all around us in the world.
As I drove toward home--a 90 mile trip we make quite often to return to our post and beam cedar cottage--a beautiful tropical storm was brewing out near Nantucket. Steve and I had taken different cars in order to get all our errands done while up in the more modern shopping of off Cape communities. The sky was so spectacular and it lit the whole horizon creating such a show you couldn't imagine what you were seeing.
It made me remember our day at the beautiful Fine Arts Museum in Havana, the way the thunder and lightening had echoed through out the amazing open stairway of the museum. It was as though nature was creating a symphony to match the works collected in the museum.
I wanted to write to myself in my journal that night , to never forget the powerful moments that can't be really described even in images. The feel of the oppressive humidity on our skin, the heat and the build up to the first lightening strike. I notice in myself and so many artists around me the striving and the burning creativity that sometimes keep me from being present for the real miracles around me.
I will remember this weekend, such a great time with my friends and family just enjoying each other and being aware that it is always a miracle, each day, each friend, each child running in the grass.
Art gives us a second look at those moments when we take the time to really look. I am sure the wonderful people of Cuba (that we met and experienced_ often see a show of fantastic lightening and thunder out beyond that sea wall. Perhaps those gifts of nature in someway make the other suffering tolerable at times?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
FROM KATE
Here's the latest from Kate, plus a wonderful offer--if anyone is up for some time back east!
Hi Peter,
I hope you and Ellie got to the beach and have enjoyed the summer. Our life got to busy we just took it day by day...
My brother had such a great time, I set him up to paint for 10 days out in the garden, even though he is very abstract in nature it really made his spirit come alive. I fed him from our organic garden and he went home with 10 paintings to Detroit. Frontal Lobe Dementia takes your verbal world away, think of becoming instinctive like a domestic animal but more. He still is very cogent and funny, his humor has kicked in. His visual world has become more lucid and amazing.
We then had 19 people here for almost three weeks. So wonderfully fun, to the beach each day and the pond and dinner by torch light everynight. Whew I just couldnt write at all. It reminded me of our time in Cuba the way people stay outside and then the nights are so alive.
While touring with our 17 year old granddaughter looking at colleges where she is being recruited in a way by the theater programs, we went to Boston College and realized that the WILFREDO LAM , show is coming there in September what a small world. Our college professor Marie Canaves fled Havana as a child and she has shared so much with me. I am taking her gifts for the 60th birthday I brought from Havana on Sunday, There have been many documentaries on CUBA on PBS all summer. We can never get enough.
Still working with Deede Tonelli at the Cape Cod Museum of Art on bringing you here. It would be such a gift to our art community. I have actually been reading Persist at night, what a wonderful book. Thanks for writing it.
This is the craziest request but I will post it. Our house exchange in San Francisco fell through due to illness for the people there. We are coming anyway. Do you know anyone, who you would trust to take care of a beautiful house and art collection who would like to use our house from Sept 14 to October 25. It has to be someone who we can get a reccomendation on. We dont rent this house, its not a rental in any way with a big art collection and gardens. but we have had writers and artists do residencies here. Just a crazy thought but perhaps there is an artist or writer who would be able to rent such a place but might enjoy staying here on a retreat while we are gone?
Hope you are doing good, and that you had time to relax, enjoy , write and make art.
Love to all the LA crowd, Kate and Steve
www.studioonsloughroad.com
PS I made a typo , the house would be free, we never let people pay to stay here but we love it when artists or writers come and stay while we are out to see our kids in California. Its an offer of a place for people to come and get inspired. Rentals go for 4 to 5 thousand a week on Cape Cod in August, but we would never charge artists or writers , not in our nature, yet we are very careful about who stays here? does that make sense?
Hi Peter,
I hope you and Ellie got to the beach and have enjoyed the summer. Our life got to busy we just took it day by day...
My brother had such a great time, I set him up to paint for 10 days out in the garden, even though he is very abstract in nature it really made his spirit come alive. I fed him from our organic garden and he went home with 10 paintings to Detroit. Frontal Lobe Dementia takes your verbal world away, think of becoming instinctive like a domestic animal but more. He still is very cogent and funny, his humor has kicked in. His visual world has become more lucid and amazing.
We then had 19 people here for almost three weeks. So wonderfully fun, to the beach each day and the pond and dinner by torch light everynight. Whew I just couldnt write at all. It reminded me of our time in Cuba the way people stay outside and then the nights are so alive.
While touring with our 17 year old granddaughter looking at colleges where she is being recruited in a way by the theater programs, we went to Boston College and realized that the WILFREDO LAM , show is coming there in September what a small world. Our college professor Marie Canaves fled Havana as a child and she has shared so much with me. I am taking her gifts for the 60th birthday I brought from Havana on Sunday, There have been many documentaries on CUBA on PBS all summer. We can never get enough.
Still working with Deede Tonelli at the Cape Cod Museum of Art on bringing you here. It would be such a gift to our art community. I have actually been reading Persist at night, what a wonderful book. Thanks for writing it.
This is the craziest request but I will post it. Our house exchange in San Francisco fell through due to illness for the people there. We are coming anyway. Do you know anyone, who you would trust to take care of a beautiful house and art collection who would like to use our house from Sept 14 to October 25. It has to be someone who we can get a reccomendation on. We dont rent this house, its not a rental in any way with a big art collection and gardens. but we have had writers and artists do residencies here. Just a crazy thought but perhaps there is an artist or writer who would be able to rent such a place but might enjoy staying here on a retreat while we are gone?
Hope you are doing good, and that you had time to relax, enjoy , write and make art.
Love to all the LA crowd, Kate and Steve
www.studioonsloughroad.com
PS I made a typo , the house would be free, we never let people pay to stay here but we love it when artists or writers come and stay while we are out to see our kids in California. Its an offer of a place for people to come and get inspired. Rentals go for 4 to 5 thousand a week on Cape Cod in August, but we would never charge artists or writers , not in our nature, yet we are very careful about who stays here? does that make sense?
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
FROM KATE
William Pate from Detroit is visiting US on Cape Cod. He is my brother, a sculptor and painter who was Joel Shapiro's studio assistant in the 70's. Our uncle Maurice Pate, who was the founder of UNICEF, had a home here and we visited many times in the summer. Maurice's work in the world influenced my whole family. He was nominated along with U Thant for the Nobel Peace Prize for creating UNICEF.
My brother, 60 years old, is a Cum Laude graduate of Princeton in Fine Arts, he studied with Tony Smith and made environmental sculptures like Richard Serra and others back in the 70s. He now has PPA, an awful form of dementia, and and no longer can drive or talk--so brilliant and so young to be in such a way. But he is here making art with me for three weeks. We watched the Buena Vista Social Club and I read your blog to him. Amazing how the story of Cuba touches people in a deep way.
We both keep thinking of what he might think of Cuba as we saw it. We pored over the many images of people to people and spent the afternoon playing around with images that caught our attention. It is amazing how the impact of this journey lives on. So many amazing artists, writers and activists who shared the trip with us. It continues to impact people because it is such a compelling story. We painted all afternoon experimenting with thoughts that came from the many photographs.
Viva Cuba. yes? Love Kate and Steve.
My brother, 60 years old, is a Cum Laude graduate of Princeton in Fine Arts, he studied with Tony Smith and made environmental sculptures like Richard Serra and others back in the 70s. He now has PPA, an awful form of dementia, and and no longer can drive or talk--so brilliant and so young to be in such a way. But he is here making art with me for three weeks. We watched the Buena Vista Social Club and I read your blog to him. Amazing how the story of Cuba touches people in a deep way.
We both keep thinking of what he might think of Cuba as we saw it. We pored over the many images of people to people and spent the afternoon playing around with images that caught our attention. It is amazing how the impact of this journey lives on. So many amazing artists, writers and activists who shared the trip with us. It continues to impact people because it is such a compelling story. We painted all afternoon experimenting with thoughts that came from the many photographs.
Viva Cuba. yes? Love Kate and Steve.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
FROM TRICIA...
Greetings To All…. i hope everyone is close to 100% …….
I had to wait to share …… My Biggest personal news… I have been awarded a California Community Foundation Mid-career Artist Fellowship centered on my contributions to LA through the arts….
…..this of course has contributed to my spirit being elevated and most importantly allowing direct support for the creation of an interactive website to serve as a pictorial platform/map of my 20+ years in the trenches/streets challenging and yet nurturing policy for interdisciplinary civil equity through equality…..
……where is the support both generationally, politically and financially for this work to continue….? At this juncture I think the only way we provide for the public in America ….is through private investment…..
My desire is that a discussion will follow and allow for a natural editing of information, and a small concise book will emerge….
Does anyone know a creative, patient website and code designer/developer…? now with the fellowship… it affords me not having to work with phd students… not that it’s an unpleasant experience… just that you are at the mercy of their time commitments…. so an issue of you get what you pay for arises….
Recommendations taken… thanks to all…
I want to have a celebration in the near future… I will keep all posted… I did like the idea of us all meeting at one of the new downtown spots… Zinc is one Peter and Ellie recommended… belonging to their friends
The CCF fellowship website is a place where the public can view the work of current fellows.
The Kim Abeles announcement (click on the link, below) describes her newest, poignant and inclusive public art piece, in which I am honored to have my shoes included as a local leader of community building through the arts, sharing my story and allowing everyone to “walk a mile in my shoes”…… Please visit. you will enjoy having an urban experience to couple with Isabelle’s downtown offering of new Los Angeles.
……this has come at a time that has elevated my sense of accomplishment and encouraged me to move on to walk a mile to discover my new endeavor… bestest to all my new friends, sending good thoughts...
Saturday, July 12, 2014
FROM ISABEL
DTLA Arts
District is my office
My daily life is kind of crazy,
but tons of fun! On any given day I average at least three meetings that take
me all over greater L.A., from the North to the South; from the East to West,
meeting artists, gallerists, educators, politicians, and the community
at-large. Given the heavy traffic and the distance from point A to point B, I
have recourse to meet people half way and mostly in Downtown Los Angeles. To be
more exact, the DTLA Arts District.
Luckily for me, DTLA is
burgeoning with new cafes and restaurants that serve as the best places to hold
meetings that accommodate all budgets. Handsome Café, Urth, Stumptown, DailyDosage, Novel Café, Pie Hole, Demitasse, and Eat Drink Americano, are, among
many others, the places were I hold my meetings and to
people-watch while I wait for my next meeting. I love immersing myself
in the culture that makes LA one of the most interesting cities in the world. I have met some of the most fascinating people while
waiting for my next meeting.
At the recommendation from Peter
Clothier, confirmed by René Goiffon, I added Zinc Café to my list. Zinc...
... is
located at 580 Mateo Street, in the growing arts district. It has an excellent
menu (vegetarian), great ambiance, and an impressive wine list.
Zinc would be
the perfect place for all of us to meet once again!
Downtown L.A. is definitely on
rise as a place to work and to eat. And it's without a doubt one of the best
spots in town to hold meetings!
So next time you
are in need to meet someone or to show off LA to out of town family or friends,
visit DTLA Arts District. You’ll be happy you did!
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